Developing websites with BRAHMS online (BOL)

BRAHMS online allows you to design websites and manage your data and images online for curation and/or research use. Websites can be created for herbaria; botanic gardens; seed banks; taxonomic groups; geographic areas; images, paintings and illustrations; or any combination of these. Specialist websites can also be created. Examples are websites for historical collections or all collections of a particular collector.

BOL - key features

Connect to BOL on the BRAHMS project server or install the entire BOL system on your own server with automatic system updates. Edit websites as well as upload and update your data directly from your desktop BRAHMS v7/8.

Complete control over webpage design: The Bootstrap framework is included for responsive design creators and all CSS styling can be customised for each website project. Websites can make use of JavaScript including frameworks such as jQuery. Switch website publish status to 'hidden' while in development.

Ability to link one to many databases to a single portal. Apply virtual themes to portals using taxonomic and/or geographic parameters.

Publish taxa with full nomenclature details, descriptions, conservation status and other facts; collection events and herbarium specimens; botanic garden accessions and plants; seed bank accessions; survey plots and their data; herbarium transactions such as loans; and any category of image including specimens, plants, illustrations and paintings.

Images can be linked to any uploaded data category. Image display in resizable thumbs, filtered to current query with options to display in Zoomify format or download with maximum resolution. Add your own copyright messages for images.

Upload restrict options using restriction themes fine-tuned to the individual record level. Fuzzy data for protected taxa. Optional log in control to restrict access on data sensitive sites to registered members. Optionally disable all data downloads.

Advanced data grids with tools to sort, filter, calculate and report data. Full administrative control over default column visibility and column order as well as column header text.

Features to build and manage online queries. Fast search options can be added for any field. A wide range of searches can be constructed using URL parameters and, optionally, results can be returned as XML or JSON for integration into custom result displays.